The Second SexThe essential masterwork that has provoked and inspired generations of men and women. “From Eve’s apple to Virginia Woolf’s room of her own, Beauvoir’s treatise remains an essential rallying point, urging self-sufficiency and offering the fruit of knowledge.” —Vogue |
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Page ix
... female object and a male subject that would shape our destinies . It would also shape Beauvoir's great treatise on the subject . Beauvoir was then a thirty - eight - year - old public intellectual who had been enfranchised for only a ...
... female object and a male subject that would shape our destinies . It would also shape Beauvoir's great treatise on the subject . Beauvoir was then a thirty - eight - year - old public intellectual who had been enfranchised for only a ...
Page xviii
... female's life between childhood and adulthood . While it is often translated as " the young girl " ( by Parshley and other translators of French works ) , we think it clearly means " girl . " We have included all of Beauvoir's footnotes ...
... female's life between childhood and adulthood . While it is often translated as " the young girl " ( by Parshley and other translators of French works ) , we think it clearly means " girl . " We have included all of Beauvoir's footnotes ...
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... females in the human species ; today , as in the past , they make up about half of humanity ; and yet we are told that " femininity is in jeopardy " ; we are urged , " Be women , stay women , become women . " So not every female human ...
... females in the human species ; today , as in the past , they make up about half of humanity ; and yet we are told that " femininity is in jeopardy " ; we are urged , " Be women , stay women , become women . " So not every female human ...
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... female is female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities , " Aristotle said . " We should regard women's nature as suffering from natural defectiveness . " And Saint Thomas in his turn decreed that woman was an " incomplete man , " an ...
... female is female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities , " Aristotle said . " We should regard women's nature as suffering from natural defectiveness . " And Saint Thomas in his turn decreed that woman was an " incomplete man , " an ...
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... female , has not liberated women socially . Master and slave are also linked by a reciprocal economic need that does not free the slave . That is , in the master - slave relation , the master does not posit the need he has for the other ...
... female , has not liberated women socially . Master and slave are also linked by a reciprocal economic need that does not free the slave . That is , in the master - slave relation , the master does not posit the need he has for the other ...
Contents
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Chapter 1 | 71 |
Chapter 3 | 90 |
Chapter 4 | 104 |
Chapter 5 | 126 |
Introduction | 279 |
Chapter 5 | 439 |
Chapter 8 | 599 |
From Maturity to Old Age | 619 |
Chapter to Womans Situation and Character | 638 |
The Narcissist | 667 |
The Woman in Love | 683 |
The Mystic | 709 |
Chapter 1 | 159 |
Chapter 2 | 214 |
Claudel or the Handmaiden of the Lord | 237 |
Chapter 3 | 266 |
The Independent Woman | 721 |
Conclusion | 753 |
Selected Sources | 767 |
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